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Senior Vice President, Group Account Director

Digitas Health is the Agency of Now: The first global connected-health agency, purpose-built for marketing today. Digitas Health specializes in helping health brands navigate a complex and shifting media environment to create deeper, more relevant connections with their consumer and professional customers. With offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, and London, it is a member of the world's largest healthcare communications network, Publicis Health.

We're searching for a Senior Vice President, Group Account Director who will manage the client relationship, partner with senior leadership on high-level strategy and use their deep web knowledge to ensure strategic deliverables.

Responsibilities

New Business (50%)

• Leads and participates in client pitches and presentations
• Identifies and seeks new business opportunities while improving existing business accounts
• Develops and presents new business pitches as assigned by the Managing Director
• Generates new business products and services to meet client needs and provide additional revenue opportunities

Client Operations (30%)

• Participates in the overall organizational operations, including issues management, capacity planning, infrastructure development, resourcing, etc to support new and existing customer needs.
• Provides comprehensive and proactive communication of critical business issues (including but not limited to changes in account activities) and their impact on budget and/or forecasts to senior leadership
• Develops accurate and timely revenue budget and forecasts that meet and/or exceed established targets
• Acts as a senior resource for client through all client marketing strategies (proposals, new ideas, tactical plans, etc) by providing clients with high-level counsel and strategic advice with respect to their associated brands
• Generates product strategy, scientific position and branding supporting fully integrated offerings, including digital
• Actively seeks new assignments and revenue opportunities in collaboration with the Vice President

People Management (20%)

• Mentors a high performance account management team through visibility, accessibility, communication and best practice coaching.
• Actively participates in recruitment and development of direct team members (and others within Company as appropriate)
• Supports the VP, Account Director in the development of strategic and creative input to their respective client programming initiatives
• Responsible for adhering to all Publicis policies and procedures

Qualifications

Four year degree

12+ year's experience

8 years of leadership experience in integrated marketing programs and client relationship management with a digital scope

Creative agency and pharma experience, specifically DTC, strongly desired

Effective presentation, training and client-facing skills

In depth communication and written skills

Strong analytic and strategic abilities

Candidate must be open to travel as needed

Compensation Range: $180,215.00 - $299,637.00 annually.